Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 275 Blessing
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Occupied area, ? ? ? area, "Maoyun Town".

"So, can you take me to see the mayor?" Sun Hang said to the two little girls, "I have some small questions that I would like to ask the mayor to answer."

"No." A little girl shook her head, "The mayor is not in town."

"Then where is it?"

"He is omnipresent." Another little girl continued, "It was the mayor who saved the town, but He also cursed everyone in the town. He saved everyone from the tragedy of death, but He only saved death."

"What does it mean that the only thing that can be spared is death?" Sun Hang asked puzzledly.

"You will experience everything you need to experience before death, but death will never come," the little girl said.

Sun Hang felt a sudden pain in his teeth.

He suddenly understood what the other party meant by "curse".

For example, if a person is hacked to death by a knife, then in this town, even if he is cut into pieces, he will not be dead - he may faint from the pain, but when he wakes up, his body will still be broken into pieces of meat.

The pain is only temporary. When the flesh rots and the nerves die, the severe pain that is enough to make a person faint will gradually disappear...

But what is coming will be something more terrifying than severe pain.

The cursed person will watch himself rot, watch maggots crawl in and out of his body, watch his flesh gradually turn into pus, and mix with dust and feces...but he will not die...

It is also possible that his eyes lost their normal functions earlier, and he could not see, hear, smell or feel. He lost everything as a human being, and only the last thing was left: being alive.

This kind of curse is chilling just to think about.

The so-called "immortality" has always been the most vicious curse, not a blessing.

As for the death threat that the residents of Maoyun Town need to face...that should be food shortage.

Sun Hang seemed to understand all the strange things he had seen along the way... The townspeople of Maoyun Town had turned into immortal monsters, but as a price, they would always suffer from hunger.

"How should this strange thing be classified into?" Sun Hang muttered in his heart, "Is it the rule type or the phenomenon type? It seems that the environment type cannot be ruled out... No, it should not belong to the environment type. The environment type has regional restrictions. If the townspeople want to get rid of it, they just need to leave Maoyun Town..."

"Then I might as well ask you directly." Sun Hang looked at the two little girls, "Where can I buy food with money in town?"

"Grain station."

"Where is the grain station?"

"Just keep going along this street until you reach the end, and you'll find the grain station."

"Okay, thank you." Sun Hang said, and took out his cell phone. "To thank you, let me take a photo of you."

He deliberately spoke slowly, and before the two little girls shifted their gaze, he quickly turned on the camera function of his mobile phone and pointed the lens at them.

He saw two skinny bodies with huge, disproportionate heads and deformed torsos beneath them, but the abdomen was swollen as if they were pregnant for ten months, and the slender limbs were like dry branches, giving people the feeling that they would break with the slightest touch.

When they moved their gaze over, the picture in the camera instantly returned to normal, and what Sun Hang saw through the camera became exactly the same as what he saw with his naked eyes - two plump white little girls, wearing washed-out homespun clothes, with pigtails on their heads that were very common in that era, and two pairs of eyes without whites on their expressionless faces staring straight at Sun Hang.

"You saw it, didn't you?" a little girl asked.

"Do you think it's scary?" another little girl asked.

"Uh..." Sun Hang scratched his head awkwardly. He knew that playing dumb was useless now, so he decided to just give up. "From a normal person's perspective, it looks like a monster, but in human society, there are definitely guys who like XP. As for me... I think the little girl is scarier... There's a saying called the 'uncanny valley effect', I wonder if you've heard of it?"

The so-called uncanny valley effect means that the closer an object's appearance is to that of a human, the more uneasy and frightening it will be. But when it is exactly the same as a human, this fear and uneasiness will suddenly disappear. The dolls, puppets, and even mummies, zombies and other "old actors" that appear in many horror works have more or less made use of this "uncanny valley effect."

Sun Hang had a similar dream last month. In the dream, he was walking naked through a deserted shopping mall. There were no counters, no exits or entrances, and no elevators. The only things he could see were a large number of spotlights and plastic models wearing various fashions under the spotlights.

Sun Hang walked back and forth among the plastic models, and he soon discovered that every time he went around a circle, the positions of the models would undergo some subtle changes. Those poorly carved, strange faces that seemed to be smiling but not smiling were facing different directions, but every time Sun Hang turned his head, he could feel that the back of his head had instantly become the focus of countless gazes.

As for how Sun Hang escaped from this nightmare, it is a bit inappropriate for children to talk about it...

Instead of destroying the plastic models, he pushed down a model wearing sexy underwear and rode on it...

Just as Sun Hang was trying to turn his nightmare into a wet dream, he woke up.

The reason why Sun Hang did this was not because he was really that hungry, but because he saw a post on the Internet.

That post said: Weird people are afraid of evil people, but weird people are even more afraid of perverts.

Just when Sun Hang was wondering if he would be considered a copper smelter if he did something perverted to the two "little girls", one of the little girls suddenly said, "Do you really think that what you see is fake, and what appears in the mirror is real?"

"I don't think so." Sun Hang answered honestly, "I have always been wondering who is real and who is fake."

"There is no need to doubt it. It depends on your own choice." The little girl said, "Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly. Who can tell who is dreaming, Zhuang Zhou or the butterfly?"

"What idealism..." Sun Hang rubbed his nose. "But to be honest, what you said makes sense. If you want to live a normal life, then you don't have to do anything. If you want to pursue novelty or excitement, then observe the world through the mirror... Anyway, whether it is a beautiful skin or deformed flesh and blood, it is just a kind of information received by the brain. For those whose cognition is distorted, deformed flesh and blood may be more attractive."

"You have a good understanding ability." said a little girl.

"The mayor might like you very much." another little girl continued.

"Just now, a new question popped up in my mind." Sun Hang squatted down and looked straight into the little girl's eyes without whites. "Do you know Anna Dimoshchina?"

The two little girls looked at each other, then shook their heads in unison. "That's fine, I thought you were transformed by her." Sun Hang stood up and said with some disappointment.

"Why do you think so?"

"You know too much. You even know the story of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly. This doesn't seem like the amount of knowledge you should have at your age," said Sun Hang.

"There is a library in the town. There are many books in the library." said a little girl.

"The book not only contains the story of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of the butterfly, but also many other things," another little girl continued.

"Something else? For example?"

"Newton's classical mechanics, Einstein's general relativity and special relativity, Maxwell's equations..." the little girl listed them all.

"Oh my god, top students?" Sun Hang was slightly stunned. "Compared with you, I feel like an illiterate."

"We haven't actually read these things. I'm just naming them." The little girl suddenly made a sharp turn. "Initially, people in the town would read to kill time, but as time went by, people started to become more and more abnormal. Some people would tear the books to pieces while reading, and some would roll up the whole book and stuff it down their throats... until someone burned down the library, and then people turned their attention to other things."

"Something else? What?"

"Anything they can find," the little girl replied.

Sun Hang suddenly remembered the "junk" sold at the shops and stalls.

"You are very special." The little girl suddenly said, "You seem to have the power to resist the curse."

"Ah? Counter the curse? What does that mean?" Sun Hang was a little confused by this sentence.

"Since you have become a member of Maoyun Town, you should feel hungry." said the little girl.

"A member of Maoyun Town? When? I'm just a passer-by, and my car is still parked outside the town." Sun Hang said.

“When you accept the mayor’s gift, it means you have taken on the curse of this town,” said the little girl.

"Gifts...you mean the bait and the fifty cents?" Sun Hang curled his lips. "Sure enough, that old woman has bad intentions."

“No, He is saving you.” The little girl shook her head. “Without food, you will never be able to leave this place. You will starve to death in the wilderness.”

"I have something to eat." Sun Hang said as he took out a piece of compressed biscuit, tore open the package in front of the little girl, then bit off a piece, chewed it up and swallowed it.

But the next second, the biscuit crumbs mixed with saliva rolled down Sun Hang's chest.

Sun Hang was startled and reached out to touch his throat - only now did he realize that a large, painless hole had appeared on his throat at some point.

"Is this a curse..."

"If you don't become a member of Maoyun Town, you will never find Maoyun Town." The little girl said, "Although you are cursed, at least you can survive."

"Can I leave here then?"

"Of course you can, but leaving doesn't mean the curse is lifted." The little girl said, "There was once an outsider who lived in the town for a while and then left. I don't know if he returned to the 'world that belonged to him'."

"Outsider? Are you talking about... humans?" Sun Hang was a little surprised. Could it be that someone had broken into this strange town before him?

"He said he had killed someone and was wanted. He ran all the way, crossed countless rivers, climbed countless mountains, and finally collapsed in the wilderness... The mayor found him dying of hunger on the side of the road. The mayor gave him food, which kept him alive and made him a member of the town."

"Why does it sound like this mayor is a good person?" Sun Hang complained.

"The mayor is a good person. He just wants everyone to survive." The little girl's tone was still emotionless, but for some reason, Sun Hang could vaguely hear a sigh between the lines. "But the mayor doesn't have the ability to conjure food. Everyone can survive, but they still have nothing to eat."

"Then where did these foods...the bait that the old woman gave me...come from?" Sun Hang asked, but in his heart, he had already guessed the answer.

"That's the meat cut from oneself or others," the little girl said. "No one remembers who started doing this first, but it is indeed the only food available in the town. These foods can't eliminate people's hunger, but at least they can remind people of the feeling of eating."

"Since food is so easy to get, why do the townspeople fight for it? If they are hungry, can't they just cut a piece from their own body?"

"What is cut off is bloody rotten meat. Only after the blessing of the mayor can the rotten meat be turned into food, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks... Rotten meat can be found everywhere, but blessed meat is rare... Only at the monthly sacrificial ceremony will the mayor bless it. The blessed 'food' can be preserved for a month, so even if it is just something to comfort you, it is still not something that everyone can enjoy." The little girl replied.

"That you……"

"We are the stored food, and we will dedicate ourselves in the next sacrificial ceremony." The little girl replied.

"How many days are left until the next sacrificial ceremony?"

"Just tomorrow."

"It seems I came at a good time." Sun Hang muttered, "By the way, how did the last outsider leave?"

"He couldn't stand the endless hunger, and he said he wanted to return to his original world to find food...even if he had to spend his whole life in prison."

"So you let him go?" Sun Hang was stunned. "You didn't even try to stop him?"

"Why stop him?" the little girl asked. "The mayor took him in because he couldn't bear to see him starve to death. He didn't want to imprison him forever."

"...Can I go to the sacrificial ceremony tomorrow?"

"of course."

(End of this chapter)